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[work from the port ERIN JilOLOGICAL STATION.] 



EEPOET on the TUKBELLAEIA of the L.M.B.C. 



DISTEICT. 



By F. W. Gamble, B.Sc, 



BERKELEY FELLOW OF THE OWENS COLLEGE, MANCHESTER. 



With Plates XII to XIV. 



[Read January 13tli, 1893.] 



The followmg Eeport is a summary of observations made 

 during July and part of October, 1892, at the Port Erin 

 Biological Station belonging to the Liverpool Marine 

 Biology Committee. Owing to the limited time at my 

 disposal much yet remains to be done before an accurate 

 idea of the Turbellaria of the District can be formed. My 

 researches at Port Erin and at the Marine Biological 

 Association's Laboratory at Plymouth, seem to point to 

 the conclusion that we are only beginning to ascertain 

 the richness of this portion of the British Fauna. As a 

 general result 28 species representing 28 genera have 

 been found at Port Erin. Five of these are new to Britain. 

 The Turbellaria (like the Protozoa, Nematodes and 

 some smaller groups) have, for various reasons been little 

 studied in this country. It is chiefly to the following 

 workers that the knowledge we possess of the marine 

 species, is due. 



Sir John Daly ell recorded a few species from the Firth 

 of Forth ; Dr. Johnson worked Berwick Bay; Mr. Wm. 

 Thompson of Dublin worked the east coast of Ireland. 

 In 1861 Prof. Ed. Claparede paid a visit to Skye, 

 where he found many new forms. Prof. M'Intosh has 

 noticed some species in his " Marine Invertebrates and 

 Fishes of St. Andrews." These records, however, do not 

 by any means give us a complete account of the Turbel- 



